Keith Jeffery
Born
in The United Kingdom
January 11, 1952
Died
February 12, 2016
Genre
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The Secret History of MI6
21 editions
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published
2010
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1916: A Global History
5 editions
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published
2016
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A Military History of Ireland
by
2 editions
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published
1996
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Ireland and the Great War
2 editions
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published
2000
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Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier
5 editions
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published
2006
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The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22
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published
1984
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An Irish Empire? Aspects of Ireland & the British Empire
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published
1996
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The GPO and the Easter Rising
2 editions
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published
2006
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The Divided Province: The Troubles In Northern Ireland 1969-1985
by
2 editions
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published
1985
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States of Emergency: British Governments and Strikebreaking Since 1919
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published
1983
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“It was here that Lieutenant Thomas Kettle fell, leading a company of the 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers just ahead of Lieutenant Emmet Dalton – who won a Military Cross in the engagement, acquired the nickname ‘Ginchy’, later became IRA Director of Munitions, and was to reach the rank of general in the army of independent Ireland. Kettle was a former Irish nationalist MP and Professor of National Economics at University College Dublin, who had been in Belgium at the beginning of the war buying guns for the nationalist Irish Volunteers. He joined up believing that the war had a just cause, being fought on behalf of small nations such as Belgium, Serbia and Ireland too. But he had been dispirited by the Easter Rising in Dublin. While he had no sympathy with the rebels, he correctly predicted how posterity might view him vis-à-vis the 1916 leaders. ‘These men,’ he wrote, ‘will go down in history as heroes and martyrs, and I will go down – if I go down at all – as a bloody British officer.”
― 1916: A Global History
― 1916: A Global History
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